[ SAMSUNG owners can get their hands on a nifty AI app that can tackle a pile up of messages, thanks to a new partnership with Microsoft. The Korean smartphone company announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Copilot on the Galaxy Book 4 at CES 2024. 1 In the real world, these capabilities … Read more
[ A new energy bill sets targets for renewing France’s park of nuclear energy plants but not expanding wind or solar power production. Critics are deriding as a step backward a new French energy bill that favors the further development of nuclear power and avoids setting targets for solar and wind power and other renewables. … Read more
[ Duolingo Inc, the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools. About 10% of contractors were “offboarded”, a company spokesperson said on Jan 8. “We just no longer need … Read more
[ PETALING JAYA: Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said his ministry may look into regulating podcast content in Malaysia following a controversial statement made by a local actor in a recent podcast episode. “We don’t have plans yet but you have just given me an idea,” he said when met in Putrajaya today (Jan 9). Fahmi … Read more
[ Enlarge / AMD’s first Ryzen 8000 desktop processors are what the company used to call “APUs,” a combination of a fast integrated GPU and a reasonably capable CPU. AMD AMD’s G-series Ryzen desktop processors have always been a bit odd—a little behind the curve on AMD’s latest CPU architectures, but with integrated graphics performance … Read more
[ The Wimagine implant on display ahead of CES in Las Vegas on January 7, 2024. CES, the annual high tech gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas, again delivers its wave of new inventions and cutting edge technology with artificial intelligence this year’s unavoidable buzzword. Here’s a look at some selected examples shown to the media, … Read more
[ LONDON: Public anger is mounting over what has been described as Britain’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft because of a computer software glitch. Lives were ruined by the false accusations that led to some Post Office branch managers being jailed, going bankrupt, losing their homes … Read more
[ DUNNELLON, Florida: A missing Ohio teen was recovered in Florida after she logged in to an online video game at the home of the man who took her, authorities said. Thomas Ebersole, 31, was arrested last Wednesday at his Dunnellon home, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The area is about 80 miles … Read more
[ Enlarge / The iPhone that fell from Alaska Airlines flight 1282, discovered by Seanathan Bates under a bush on the side of the road. On Sunday, game developer Seanathan Bates discovered a working iPhone that fell 16,000 from Alaska Airlines flight 1282 on Friday. Flight 1282 suffered an explosive decompression event when a door … Read more
[ a) C-LWA produced in the pelletization process in a rotating pan concrete mixer, b) C-LWA in the cured (hardened) state and c) C-LWA pellet embedded in concrete (cut section). Credit: Journal of Cleaner Production (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140008 To achieve the goal of a climate-neutral Switzerland by 2050, strategies and processes with a negative CO2 … Read more
